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Join us for our annual Candle Lighting Service, a program of words and music where you will have the opportunity to light a candle in honor of someone you wish to remember.
Candles will be sold at the program. Read more...
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Winter Season of Remembrance
We are now accepting tribute orders for the Winter Holiday
season.
Please place your order by Friday, December 8th.
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The work we do is made possible by the generosity of our donors every year. As an active cemetery, historic landmark, arboretum, and wildlife refuge, it takes many people to fulfill our mission. We couldn't do it all without your support.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to our Annual Fund!
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Sunday, December 10th at 1PM
Want to learn some very basic ways for drawing the nature you know and love here at the Cemetery? Join Clare Walker Leslie for
Drawing Mount Auburn's Mammals, Amphibians.
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Join The
Christmas Bird Count!
The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 100 years of citizen science involvement. This year's c
ount will be conducted between December 14th - January 5th.
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Eternally Green: Climate-Adaptive Emergent Zone Planting Project
Mount Auburn Cemetery has three ponds and a vernal pool within its 175 acre, urban footprint. Each water body provides
important wildlife habitat.
Halcyon Lake provides breeding ground for the American Toad, Auburn Lake supports the native Snapping Turtle, Willow Pond provides excellent fishing ground for the native Great Blue Heron and the vernal pool at Consecration Dell provides breeding habitat for the Spotted Salamander. Each water body supports other wildlife as well.
Protection of habitat is an important part of our mission...
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Horticulture Highlight:
Korean Fir, Abies koreana
The Korean Fir is a 30-50-foot (often smaller in landscape use), pyramidal, slow-growing evergreen tree with flattened, linear leaves (½-inch to 3/4-inch-long) with a curved tip.
When its female flowers are fertilized, barrel-shaped, cones are produced which sit upright upon branches. A notable characteristic of Korean Fir is the violet-purple, some say bluish, color of the immature cones, which eventually turn brown. In Korea, this is a species now listed as endangered, and...
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History Highlight: Cemetery reaches 100,000 interments
In March 2017, Mount Auburn Cemetery reached the 100,000 interment milestone.
In 1993 the Cemetery published a ground-breaking Master Plan to shape how the Cemetery was managed and developed. In it was a startling revelation "If the Cemetery continues to rely primarily on its past practices of developing traditional, in-ground body burial space, it has less than eight years of land left before it ceases to be an active cemetery." But through creative development of new areas and an increase in the...
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Person of the Month:
I. F. ("Izzy") Stone (1907-1989)
Investigative reporter, journalist and publisher, I. F. Stone i
s buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Lot 163 on Walnut Avenue.
Born Isidor Feinstein in December 1907, "Izzy"
published his first newspaper as a teenager and later went on to become the youngest editorial writer at a major newspaper to speak out against Hitler's growing power.
Shortly after this, he changed his name to I. F. Stone and later began receiving
awards and honors for...
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Electronics Recycling Day
Saturday, January 20th 2018
Mount Auburn is sponsoring an electronics recycling day on Saturday, January 20th.
Bring your items to Mount Auburn's service yard at 24 Cottage Street, Watertown, MA between 10 am and 1 pm. There will be a $30 charge for TVs, $15 charge per CRT monitor or flat screen monitor. Bring cash with you if you plan to drop off those items.
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Beyond Our Gates: Events of Interest to the Community
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Directed by Judith Wechsler
Watertown Free Library
123 Main Street
Watertown, MA
Friday, December 8th at 2:30PM
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Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Listen to a harpist in the family's Music Room, explore the illuminated grounds, and enjoy refreshments and crafts in the Carriage House.
Friday, December 15th between 4PM-8PM
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Clare Walker Leslie Exhibit
Healthworks Fitness Center
Porter Square, Cambridge, MA
November 16th - December 15th 2017
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